Why do scientists keep looking for planets similar to earth to find extraterrestrial life? I think it is rather selfish of us as a species to expect life to only exist in earth like conditions. Perhaps life in another form is much more common then we are. I am all for science and hope this project is succesfull and finds interestings things. But i do hope humanity would broaden its mind on what the definition of life entails.
Rookie_human t1_j8wgtsm wrote
Reply to NASA will fund a feasibility study of a space-based Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER): Detecting and Characterizing All Earth-Like Exoplanets Orbiting Sun-Like Stars Within 10 parsecs (30 light-years). by lughnasadh
Why do scientists keep looking for planets similar to earth to find extraterrestrial life? I think it is rather selfish of us as a species to expect life to only exist in earth like conditions. Perhaps life in another form is much more common then we are. I am all for science and hope this project is succesfull and finds interestings things. But i do hope humanity would broaden its mind on what the definition of life entails.